141. Mera's Enlightenment
After all the 3,000 refugees brought in by Captain Sina were registered once, they were all properly arranged.
The refugees were assigned new housing, and it was not a matter for Lucheng to think about where the refugees should go, but for Mera, the acting administrator of the city.
But after Mera found out where the group of immigrants came from, she personally rode the Blood Crystal Beast all the way to the ferry to talk to Lu Cheng.
As soon as Lu Cheng saw off the captain who had drunk the fragment, Mera, the daughter of the Seven Kings of Scarley, appeared in front of Lu Cheng.
Although Mera and Elena were not born to the same mother, there is still a little bit of Elena between her eyebrows, except that this woman pays more attention to her appearance than Elena.
Some of the cosmetics of modern women, such as nail polish and lipstick, can be found on Mera's body, but she uses similar substitutes in this world.
The flamboyant woman hurried into the tent with the permission of the soldiers guarding outside.
She couldn't describe her mood when she saw Lucheng again, and the first time Mera saw Lucheng happened to be when Lucheng took his sister Elena and killed the king with a single shot.
At that time, she had a pure fear of Lucheng, a fear of a powerful invader.
Until now that the situation in Scarley is stable, and Mera has once again taken charge of Scarley's power as she wished, her opinion of Lucheng will be brought to Elena.
That is, Elena really found a good partner!
In terms of the current situation, it is undoubtedly the most beneficial for Mela for Elena to get closer to Lucheng.
The problem is that Elena has a wooden brain, and the last time she went back to the royal city, she sat with Lu Cheng and the relationship was limited to one friend, and Mera remembered that the princess of the next kingdom seemed to have a good relationship with Lu Cheng in the camp.
Thinking of this, Mera's heart was a little anxious, so anxious that she couldn't wait to play herself.
Wait a minute... She can indeed play in person, and although Mera looks at Lu Cheng's age a little younger, she is still very confident in terms of beauty.
But Mela didn't come here today to get closer to Lucheng.
"Mr. Lu Cheng, those refugees of yours are from the Far South?"
When Mera found out that the first batch of immigrants were all half-elves, she wondered where these half-elves came from, but there were only a hundred of them, so Mera didn't ask much about the origin of these half-elves.
But this time there were as many as 3,000 immigrants, and a tenth of them were half-elves, Mera vaguely realized that something was wrong, and she inquired about those refugees and found out that they were from the Gray Feather Kingdom, and the core of the Gray Feather Kingdom's leylines was eaten by the Blood Crystal Beast, so they came to Scarre to flee.
The Gray Feather Kingdom is a vassal state of the Far South Empire, and those who dare to touch the Gray Feather Kingdom are basically tantamount to provoking the Far South.
"Are you afraid of retribution from the Far Southern Empire?"
Lu Cheng could see at a glance the reason why the 'acting ruler' was in a hurry.
"Every country on this continent will be afraid of the Far South, Mr. Lu Cheng."
After receiving a nod from Lu Cheng, Mera found a chair to sit down.
"Do you think we are powerful or the Far South is great?" Lu Cheng asked.
"It must be your country."
Mera gave this answer without even thinking about it, if the Blood Crystal Beast of the Scarre Kingdom turned into the army of the Far Southern Empire, it was estimated that it would also be completely wiped out under the fire of heavenly punishment.
"But the problem is that you and your country can't shelter us all the time, can we?" Still, Mera voiced her concerns.
Mera is well aware that Scarley's current stability comes from Lucheng and the country behind him, and that Scarley's future development depends on this country.
But the question is... What if the road to the city was unhappy that day and went straight with the rabbits? An even more terrifying scenario would be a direct break with Scalley.
The latter situation is something that Mera can't handle at all, so she hasn't thought about how to deal with it, and Mera has been thinking about what she will do if the first situation arises.
"That's right, you're smart, smarter than Elena in some ways, even Elena has the confidence to defeat the Far Southern Empire, don't you?"
Lu Cheng put his hands on the table, looking at this woman with delicate makeup, Lu Cheng will always be under the makeup armor no matter how much time Lu Cheng sees Mera.
"Elena she's still young, she doesn't know what the Far South is... It's a country with a population of tens of millions. "Even if Scarley develops for ten years, he will still be a small sapling in front of the Far South, unless you can..."
Lucheng made a booing gesture to Meraby, and she quickly shut up when she saw this gesture, if only Elena would have been pulling a lot of useless words at Lucheng.
"No unless, Miss Mera... A large population does not mean that a country is strong, and you should agree with this point now, right? Lu Cheng asked.
Mera subconsciously bit her red nail polish thumb, her past experience in politics told her that the most important measure of a country's strength is its population.
The more people you have, the more land you can cultivate, the more things you can make, and the more soldiers you can compensate with.
But Mera had seen the automated golems, the golems mined in the Black Flame Mine, and the power of one golem was enough to cover the efficiency of tens of thousands of slave miners in a day.
Scarley can buy these golems from the rabbits, but who will be the controller? And with these golems, there is no longer a need for mining slaves... When the staff is free, what should they do?
Mera clenched her thumb and thought for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion.
"Mr. Lucheng, I remember General Hubert once told me a... A common saying in your country. Mera said.
"You're referring to proverbs." Lu Cheng knew that Mera was also learning Chinese, but some of the vocabulary Chinese was not so easy to understand.
"Yes, the proverb is, 'No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education.'" ”
Mera finally stopped ravaging her nails, stared at Lu Cheng with red pupils, and uttered the sentence word by word.
"When I first heard this, I thought it was wrong, let the commoners and slaves learn new things, who will do the work? But civilians can become magicians, scribes, and... The inventor of these golems! ”
"Isn't that something you should have known earlier? The princess who came from Xiu Enzhe had already figured this out. Lu Cheng said.
"The royal daughter of Xiu Enzhelai? Am I being too short-sighted? Mera didn't expect that she would lose to the little girl in this kind of thing, "I'm going to run a school, a school for magicians and researchers... That's the point now, not thinking about what golems to buy from your country. ”
"Although I don't want you to be in such a hurry, I will support it in a private capacity."
Lu Cheng did not interfere in the development of Scalley, mainly because he had no energy, but Scalley's future will not develop too badly with the guidance of this princess.